Oltukai Conservancy

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 29 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

Ngorongoro Crater, 286 meters above the sea level, is the largest unbroken caldera in the World. Surrounded by very steep walls rising 610 meters from the Crater floor, this natural amphitheatre covers an area of about 260 square, 100 square miles, and is home to up 25, 000largest mammals, almost half of them Zebras and Wildebeests.There are also Gazelles, Buffaloes, Elands, Hartebeests, Warthogs and others. Such concentrated numbers attract predators, mainly Lions, and Hyenas but also Cheetahs and Leopards. More than a 100 species of Birds not found in the Serengeti have been spotted here. Countless Flamingoes form a pink blanket over the Soda lakes.Thank you.Boniface Ngimojino

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 28 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

One of the Conservancies priorities is to empower community leadership in conservation. At the community grass-root level the Conservancy works with community leaders to improve their skills and experience needed to manage land and other natural resources, and to promote conservation enterprises. Community skills are improved mostly through workshops, exchange visits and study tours to other community groups related in natural resources management. The Ol Tukai Conservancy has established a strong partnership and co-operation with Government departments (National parks), other conservation societies and most important local villages that can be directly benifited by establishing conservation on their land.

Thank you

Boniface Ngimojino.

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 26 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

The Ratel or Honey Badger is a chunky, lumbering carnivore that lives throughout Africa except in driest centre of the Sahara and the Mediterranean littoral. At Least 11 sub-species have been named. Ratels are opportunistic omnivores, specialising in the excavation of social insects, mice, spiders and scorpions from hard sub-terranean hiding places.  Also ratels will feed on the softer parts of well protected animals, such as tortoises and turtles, and whenever possible will take reptiles, birds and even fish, and has been known to cover 37 km a night foraging for food. Once a female ratel comes into heat, courtship is very energetic. After days of deliberation, a male is accepted as mating partner and the pair will remain in a burrow for 3- 4 days mating. The female ratel will give birth in a self dug, grass lined burrow to up to 4 young after a gestation period of around 6 months. A ratel cub is almost an exact replica of its mother, and as it grows, it learns to be aggressive to any other creature, as it travels across the plains.

Honey Badgers are found throughout the Ol Tukai conservancy but are rarely seen because of their nocturnal behavior.

Thank you

Ol Tukai team.

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 23 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

Crop lands are held by individuals head of families.The villages and Governmentunits have conrtol over more extensive areas of communal grazing  and wildlife lands.They have power to maintain and allocate their rights to land  by keeping it under  cultivation, grazing and wildlife  management areas. If a family migrates to another area, the head of the household may transfer his rights to his land on a permanent or temporary basis, or he may lend land.

Transferance of rights may requires a public agreement before elders, but lending is carriedout informally.If a man returns to his land, the other occupants must leave.

Thanks.

Boniface Ngimojino   

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 18 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

The Tarangire -Manyara swamps are important catchment and home to many bird species, some of which are migratory such as Flamingoes and stocks. These swamps, on the western  and southern parts of the lake manyara, form an important  dry season refugee, particularly  for elephants and Buffaloes. It is also in these swamps that one can find tree- climbing pythons which more out of swamps during dry season to avoid being trampled by elephants and buffaloes that move there for water and grass. These tree-climbing -pathons are also part of the attractions of the park  just like it is for tree-climbing lions of the Tarangire- Manyara ecosystems.

Thanking you for your kindness.

Boniface Ngimojino. 

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 15 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

The wildlife found are Lions, Giraffes, Hyeanas, Leopars, Cheetahs, Baboons, Reedbucks, Warthogs, Impalas, Kligspringres, Oryx, Enlands and approximately 550 different species of Birds, the largest number in all national parks.The migratory animals that come and go out of the ecosystems as the seasons change include- Zebras, Hartebeests, Buffaloes, Elephants, and Enlands. However their number is reduced to a considerable degree during the  wet season as most of the animals move out of the park to seek better pastures. During the rain season, animals leave the park and head to Simanjiro district plains, Ol tukai, Lorkisale controlled area, Manyara ranch, and along the lake manyara for better pastures.

Out of the parks Zebras and Wildbeests cal(injanuary/February)and it is said that the grass there has nutrious ingredients that help lactating animals.

Thank you for your co- operation.

Boniface Ngimojino.

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 12 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

I had been hearing stories about Baboons and had even witnessed them running from the village farms after stealing maize. They would run quickly and cross over to the park/ecosystem, then sit and watch, daring the villagers to come and get them.

These long-time the Baboons are very clever; they even know that the road is boundry between the park/reserve and the village. So, once they are inside the park, no one can harm them. Since they are Omnivorous in nature, they normally steal chicken eggs, water, fruits, vegetables, Maize and even cooked meals. Baboons are excellent climbers and can  therefore easily go over a fence without trouble and get what they want from house. Observing the Baboons  after they have snatched  something from homes is an experience one cannot forget easily.

Thank you.

Boniface Ngimojino

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Category: Wildebeest, general wildlife, water, zebra | Date: Nov 11 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

The long awaited short rains have returned to Ol Tukai. For 6 months the dry season has taken its toll on the arid land which makes up the eastern shoreline of Lake Manyara. Fresh water sources had all but dried up months ago and the migratory wildlife had moved off the Conservancy heading southwest to the more permanent water sources in Tarangire National Park. On Nov 7th, the 2-3 week “Short Rains” started to fall turning a once arride landscape into a now green healthy eco-system. Within a couple of days the Wildebeest and Zebra, the largest and most abumdent large mammals in Ol Tukai began to return in great numbers. Fresh green grass has attracted them back to Ol Tukai and water levels in the lake have began to rise bringing back many migratory bird species.

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 10 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

They are most popular insects of the world and yet their interesting life passes without notice. They are most beautiful creatures  that God has ever created. The Insects are very useful to man  and contribute significantly to productivity and stability of ecosystems, including pollination of plants as they move from one plant flower to another in search of nectar.They are active during daytime unlike moths that active during night time and spread their wings when resting.Butterflies are popular insects that are found almost in every corner of the World. Can be seen right infront of your house garden and you will be amazed at the differnt colors they display.

Thanking you in advance.

Boniface Ngimojino.

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Nov 07 2008 | By: oltukaiconservancy

The  conservation  try to achieve to conserve viable and ecologically functional populations. To ensure this, the Conservancy helps to pomote species with everuthing from securing habitats, protection and survillance, targeted partnerships, mitigating Human wildlife-conflicts, providing support to encourage the breeding and building of local capacity.

Thank you for your goodness.

Boniface Ngimojino.

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